Whilst I’m all for bashing the Everton higher-ups for anything and everything at the moment, losing Nkounkou for a pittance has far more to do with our idiot collection of managers who never played him, several even opting to use that nugget Ben Godfrey over him at left-back, than it does with our DoFs who’ve had little option but to cart him around a collection of clubs in the hope he might get some game time.
Given the fairly unspectacular loan spells before his most recent move, I think the low option to buy was likely a ploy just to get that lad moved on at the end of the season even if he’d had another mediocre spell.
It’s frustrating to lose a talented player so cheaply that the buying club are likely to flip straightaway for a profit. I saw an interview the other day from the RS’ new director of football, trying to contextualise why he let a young Victor Osimhen practically walk away from Wolfsburg. Well he’s now racked up nearly €100m in transfer fees already which is expected to more than double this summer.
Mistakes can and will happen with players who are perhaps a little rough around the edges who managers don’t play, either because they’re idiots or they feel they need to go with more experienced options etc.